cult film freak: michael ontkean

Written by James M. Tate / 10/27/2022 / No comments / bert i. gordon , harvey jason , horror , interview , lee purcell , michael ontkean , occult , orson welles , rural , seventies , thriller , witch

ORSON WELLES, PAMELA FRANKLIN & LEE PURCELL 'NECROMANCY'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeOYTDVcq7VdkTX5auzU3YTUfqZBKWU3fxBxuFOzl4-XSilHuArmQH2o2oqTBx18Swf2hW5fwzxxGS-nG9ebfqNnMT33tVa32GDviOdKOfccRJ2APJQEevGMgxGAl1cSB9I2meyaUcuBSHwOYPkUpnxtTXbULYLPdc9Jey8ssDvlTbs8Vbu5jfMvV1Rg/s908/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-27%20at%202.21.00%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="572" data-original-width="908" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeOYTDVcq7VdkTX5auzU3YTUfqZBKWU3fxBxuFOzl4-XSilHuArmQH2o2oqTBx18Swf2hW5fwzxxGS-nG9ebfqNnMT33tVa32GDviOdKOfccRJ2APJQEevGMgxGAl1cSB9I2meyaUcuBSHwOYPkUpnxtTXbULYLPdc9Jey8ssDvlTbs8Vbu5jfMvV1Rg/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-27%20at%202.21.00%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Pamela Franklin & Orson Welles in NECROMANCY Year: 1972 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Exploitation/Horror b-director Bert I. Gordon definitely knew WHO he had 
for the <i>Rural Satanic Hippie Cult</i> flick, THE WITCHING actually/originally titled NECROMANCY, but he 
didn't know enough about WHAT he had in his stellar cast including the 
legendary Orson Welles as the leader of a colorful coven... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>He's yearning to reanimate
 his dead son using the lovely, vulnerable, and soul-troubled wife of new couple in town Pamela 
Franklin, married to passive tagalong Michael Onkean as both are semi-seduced into the realm by one of the few women more insanely gorgeous than Franklin...</p><p><span></span></p>

bert i. gordon, harvey jason, horror, interview, lee purcell, michael ontkean, occult, orson welles, rural, seventies, thriller, witch

ORSON WELLES, PAMELA FRANKLIN & LEE PURCELL 'NECROMANCY'

Pamela Franklin & Orson Welles in NECROMANCY Year: 1972 Rating: **1/2 Exploitation/Horror b-director Bert I. Gordon definitely knew WHO ...

Written by James M. Tate / 10/21/2017 / No comments / ally sheedy , eighties , michael ontkean , romantic comedy , sonny landham

ALLY SHEEDY & MICHAEL ONTKEAN IN MAID TO ORDER

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: Maid to Order Star: Ally Sheedy Year: 1987</u></td></tr>
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This Cinderella tale from the glossy latter-mid 1980's is so obvious, the central spoiled rich girl actually looses a slipper... just in case you missed it... And riding high while on an unknowing descent from the Brat Pack make-em/break-em explosion two years earlier, Ally Sheedy's stuck in a light comedy that promises her character will get just-desserts for being such a brat (pun intended) when in reality, she's not so bad...<br>
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After one rushed nightclub scene followed by a failed attempt for a two-hundred dollar allowance to sustain the nightlife, dad wishes she was never born, igniting a fairy godmother in the form of quirky Beverly D'Angelo, and soon Sheedy's Jessie Montgomery is, like Dan Aykroyd in TRADING PLACES, on the streets. But since it takes no time at all to land a pretty decent job for a ludicrously unexplained reason at a wacky music promoter's mansion (Dick Shawn married to an equally kooky Valerie Perrine), the best sequence offered in MAID TO ORDER... when there's actually a struggle to catapult the film's entire purpose... occurs in the blink of an eye: after which this maid hardly gets ordered at all. But with the always-genuine Michael Ontkean on board, it's an engaging-enough rom-com, if you like that kinda thing: He and Ally have chemistry despite the fact that, along with the primadonna attitude never being fleshed out, her 90-minute life lesson is, like a spoiled-rotten rich kid's life, much too easy.<br>
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ALLY SHEEDY & MICHAEL ONTKEAN IN MAID TO ORDER

Title: Maid to Order Star: Ally Sheedy Year: 1987 This Cinderella tale from the glossy latter-mid 1980's is so obvious, the central ...

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